I have always had a fascination with old books. Their smell, their texture, their torn pages and doodled margins. This for me is the beginning of an ongoing project in the study of their warm and tactile nature which sadly often includes their ultimate degradation due to love, neglect or abuse.

“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful” – Vincent Van Gogh.